The Denial of DeathSimon and Schuster, 1 nov. 2007 - 336 pages Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie—man’s refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after its writing. |
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... transcendent heights of Beethoven and Shakespeare descends to the depravity of slaughtering its own with a seem- ingly ... transcendence and death . It is a distinctly human combination , perhaps the defining characteristic of what makes ...
... transcendent heights of Beethoven and Shakespeare descends to the depravity of slaughtering its own with a seem- ingly ... transcendence and death . It is a distinctly human combination , perhaps the defining characteristic of what makes ...
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... transcending death , whether through promises of an eternal afterlife , or continuance through a chain of descen- dants , or membership in enduring political movements , or imagined rever- berations through creative or scholarly ...
... transcending death , whether through promises of an eternal afterlife , or continuance through a chain of descen- dants , or membership in enduring political movements , or imagined rever- berations through creative or scholarly ...
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... transcendent , an undeniable demonstration that our particle arrangement can create great beauty , illuminate great mystery , and experience great wonder . And the fact that bags of particles governed by physical law can do all this ...
... transcendent , an undeniable demonstration that our particle arrangement can create great beauty , illuminate great mystery , and experience great wonder . And the fact that bags of particles governed by physical law can do all this ...
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... transcendence of Bee- thoven's Ninth . The upsetting thing about anality is that it reveals that all culture , all man's creative life - ways , are in some basic part of them a fabricated protest against natural reality , a denial of ...
... transcendence of Bee- thoven's Ninth . The upsetting thing about anality is that it reveals that all culture , all man's creative life - ways , are in some basic part of them a fabricated protest against natural reality , a denial of ...
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Table des matières
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Human Character as a Vital Lie | 47 |
THE FAILURES OF HEROISM | 125 |
Otto Rank and the Closure | 159 |
The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis | 177 |
A General View of Mental Illness | 209 |
RETROSPECT AND CONCLUSION | 253 |
References | 285 |
Index | 307 |
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Adler anal animal anxiety basic Becker becomes body burden castration castration anxiety castration complex causa-sui project Chapter character child clinical complex creation creative creature creatureliness cultural death instinct defenses denial Erich Fromm Ernest Becker existential experience fact fantasy father fear of death feel fetish fetishist freedom Freud Freudian Fromm give Greenacre guilt helplessness hero hero system heroic human condition hypnosis Ibid idea ideal ideology illusion immortality individual inner insight instinct Jung Kierkegaard kind live magical man's meaning modern mother mystery narcissism nature neurosis neurotic Oedipus Oedipus complex one's oneself Otto Rank parents patient person perversions physical possibility precisely problem Psychiatry psychoanalytic psychology psychosis Rank Rank's reality reason religion represents role sado-masochism schizophrenic scientific secure seems sense sexual social symbolic talk terror thing thought transcendence transference object Transvestism truly truth understand whole